--- title: 'Tech & AI jobs in Argentina' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/location/argentina' type: 'location' --- # Tech & AI jobs in Argentina > Argentina has one of Latin America's deepest engineering-talent pools, and despite economic turbulence, Buenos Aires keeps producing global tech companies. Mercado Libre and Globant became giants, and a fintech and e-commerce layer followed. The roles skew software engineering, fintech, and e-commerce, with much of the talent working remotely for global firms. - **Open roles:** 574 - **Hiring companies:** 121 - **Region type:** country - **Timezone:** America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires - **Population:** 46,200,000 - **Cost of living:** well below the US average, a deep engineering-talent pool in Latin America. - **Climate:** Temperate in Buenos Aires, with warm summers and mild winters. Seasons run opposite the northern hemisphere. - **Page:** https://feeny.ai/location/argentina ## Cities in Argentina - [Buenos Aires](https://feeny.ai/location/argentina/buenos-aires) — 242 jobs ## Top companies hiring in Argentina - [Silver.dev](https://feeny.ai/companies/silver-dev) — 31 open roles - [Santex](https://feeny.ai/companies/santex) — 10 open roles - [So Shall We](https://feeny.ai/companies/so-shall-we) — 8 open roles - [Backblaze External Website](https://feeny.ai/companies/backblaze-external-website) — 22 open roles - [InvGate](https://feeny.ai/companies/invgate) — 11 open roles - [Innovid](https://feeny.ai/companies/innovid) — 8 open roles - [Caylent](https://feeny.ai/companies/caylent) — 17 open roles - [Blockchain.com](https://feeny.ai/companies/blockchain-com) — 9 open roles - [Monks](https://feeny.ai/companies/monks) — 34 open roles - [Power Digital](https://feeny.ai/companies/power-digital) — 21 open roles - [CookUnity](https://feeny.ai/companies/cookunity) — 19 open roles - [Sezzle](https://feeny.ai/companies/sezzle) — 21 open roles ## Top Universities **Where Argentina's tech talent studies** The University of Buenos Aires anchors the country's talent (Uala's founder studied there), and the Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires produced Globant's founders. Together they feed one of the strongest engineering pools in the region. - **University of Buenos Aires** (Buenos Aires · 300,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Pierpaolo Barbieri - **Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires** (Buenos Aires · 4,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Martin Migoya - **Universidad Torcuato Di Tella** (Buenos Aires · 3,000 undergrads) - **Universidad Austral** (Buenos Aires · 8,000 undergrads) - **National University of Cordoba** (Cordoba · 130,000 undergrads) ## Top Unicorns **Unicorn startups in Argentina** Argentina's unicorns are e-commerce and fintech led: online stores at Tiendanube, digital finance at Uala, ad-tech at Aleph, and collaboration software at Mural. A strong bench built on the country's deep engineering talent. - **Tiendanube** — $3.1B · E-commerce platform for online stores in Latin America - **Uala** — $2.75B · Mobile financial-services app with card, payments & investing - **[Aleph](https://feeny.ai/companies/aleph)** — $2B · Digital-advertising representation in emerging markets - **[Mural](https://feeny.ai/companies/mural)** — $2B · Visual collaboration & digital-whiteboard platform ## FAQ **Tech jobs in Argentina: common questions** ### How many tech jobs are open in Argentina right now? Feeny lists about 574 active tech roles tied to Argentina, from 121 companies. These are live listings we keep refreshed, not a stale snapshot. Nearly all of the on-the-ground volume sits in Buenos Aires. Keep in mind that much of Argentina's tech work is remote for foreign firms, so the local office count only tells part of the story. ### Which cities in Argentina have the most tech jobs? Buenos Aires is essentially the whole story here, and the 1 we track reflect how concentrated the market is. The city produces a huge share of the country's engineers and hosts nearly all of its notable tech companies. There is no real second hub the way Canada has Montreal or Australia has Melbourne. If you are looking at Argentine tech, you are mostly looking at Buenos Aires. ### What companies are hiring for tech roles in Argentina? Buenos Aires keeps producing global companies despite the country's economic swings. Mercado Libre grew into Latin America's e-commerce and payments giant, and Globant became a publicly traded engineering services firm with clients worldwide. Fintech and e-commerce layer on top of that base. The talent pool is deep enough that plenty of foreign companies hire Argentine engineers directly rather than through a local office. ### What kinds of tech roles are common in Argentina? Software engineering is the country's calling card, with a reputation for strong, well-trained developers. Fintech and e-commerce provide most of the domestic product roles, led by Mercado Libre and Globant. A large share of the work, though, is remote engineering for US and European companies rather than local product jobs. If you write code well, Argentina is one of the deeper talent markets in the region. ### What is it like to work in tech in Argentina? Argentina has one of Latin America's best engineering talent pools, and Buenos Aires keeps exporting that talent by the thousand. The economics are the defining feature: with a weak peso and high inflation, huge numbers of engineers work remotely for foreign companies and get paid in dollars, which changes their standard of living dramatically. Local product roles exist, but they pay in pesos and compete with the dollar-remote option. The honest read is that dollar-paid remote work is what most top engineers here are chasing. ### Can international candidates get a work visa to work in tech in Argentina? This is the rare case where the interesting flow runs the other way. Argentina's engineers are an export: enormous numbers work remotely for US and European companies, paid in dollars against a weak peso. Relocating into Argentina for a tech job is uncommon, and it is not really how the market operates. The realistic pattern is a foreign company hiring an Argentine engineer remotely, not a foreigner moving there to work. --- _Source: https://feeny.ai/location/argentina_